Former C-130 crew chief earns prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Hadi Kamara was a C-130 crew chief supporting the 86th Maintenance Squadron at Ramstein Air Base during Operation Allies Refuge in August 2021.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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US awaits final $17 million repayment from Saudis for air refueling in Yemen war
Between March 2015 and November 2018, the Pentagon spent about $300 million to fly aerial refueling missions in support of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and others engaged in the nearly eight-year conflict.
Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown
Videos posted online showed protesters shouting anti-government slogans and moving through subway stations and sidewalks, many around Azadi, or Freedom, Square after an earlier call for people to demonstrate there.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Coalition of Iraqi lawmakers calls for US troops to withdraw, Israeli strikes a ‘declaration of war’
A powerful bloc in Iraq's parliament called on Monday for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, following a series of airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Shiite militias in the country that have been blamed on Israel.
Trump refugee policy leaves thousands stranded outside US
Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them.
Investigation: Yemen war binds US, allies with al-Qaida
A military coalition backed by the U.S. cut secret deals with the militants, the Associated Press reports.
By Trish Wilson and Lee Keath